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No.4 302,025. .Patented July 15', 1884.A

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LOUIS PIETZSOH, JOHN J. ARMSTRONG, AND JOSEPH R. LOWREY, OE ,WEIMAR TEXAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,025, dated J'uly 15, 1884.

f Application med June 15, ieee. (Model.)

To all whom. it may concern/.-

Be it known that we, Louis PIETZscH, JOHN J. ARMSTRONG, and JOSEPH R; LOW- REY, of Weimar, Colorado county, Texas, have invented a new and Improved Seed- Planter, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.. A

This invention consists of improvements on the cotton-seed-planting machine patented by J. M. Brooks the 11th day of February, 187 3, No. 135,766, whereby the cotton-seeddropping apparatus may be readily displaced and apparatus substituted for corn and other seeds, and also whereby the machine may be utilized for cultivating the ground to better advantage than as heretofore made, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate oor- -responding parts i-n all the figures.

Figure l isa plan view of our improved seed-planter. Fig. 2 is aside elevation with some of the parts broken out. Fig. 3 is allongitudinal sectional elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail in transverse section through the seed,- dropping apparatus, and Fig. 5 is aperspeotive view of the bottom-to the seed-hopper as We arrange it;

a is the beam; b, the plow'-stock; c, the plow; d, the handles; e, the seed-hopper `of the wheel, and g theseedLdropping roller, provided with cells k The seed-dropping roller g is iitted on the axle h s`o as to slip off and on readily, and is secured thereon by a pin, i. The axle h revolves in bearing j on the sides of the seed-hopper e, and can readily be slipped in and out ofthe said bearings by removing the pin i when it is desired.

Z is the dropping-slide iitting in grooves in the sides of the hopper, and provided with the brush m, which serves'as a cuto'.

O is a door hingedat p to ther rear of the hopper, so as to'permit the insertion and re-` moval of the slide.

rlhe door can be fastened by screws or any other 4approved means. q are- Shovel-plows secured to the curved beams s, Saidibealns being pvoted tothe main beam c at t in ad- 5o .Vance of the seed-hopper, and bent outward therefrom at u to clear the sides of the seedhopper. Behind the hopper said beams are connected by a rod, w, to each other with adjusting-nuts w, by which the plows can be shifted to increase or lessen the distance between them as may be required. Said beams\ are also connected to the handles d by means of bars y, which are to hold the plows in the ground, and these bars y are adjustable up and 6o down along the handles by the bolts z and holes d', so that the plows may be varied as to their depth in the ground. x, The seed-hopper and plow-stock are connected together bythe clevises b in sucha l way as to allow the plow-stock 'to swing up onthe hopper, as shown inFig. 2; and we -have provided ahook,c,in combination there-A with to hook onto the pin of the lower clevis when the plow-stock is thus elevated, and hold 7o Y it in that position for being carried over the ground when so required.

di represents a scraper attached to the seedhopper in such relation to the wheel f that it will remove sticky Soil that adheres to it.

Having thus described our invention, we

vclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Y l. The combination, with the beam a, the hopper e, and the handles d,`of the curved beams s, pivoted at their forward endsto the beam in advance of the hopper, and provided with plows q, and the bars y, pivoted to said beams s, and handles d, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. i

2. The combination, with the plow-stock b and hopper e, of the clevises b and the hook c', adapted to engage with the pin of one of the clevises, substantially as shown and described, whereby the said stockis adapted 'to 9o be swung upon the hopper and held, as set forth.

LOUIS PIETZSOH. JOHN J. ARMSTRONG. JOSEPH'R. LOWREY.

Witnesses:

C. S. TATUM, JOHN H. FISHER. 

